Conde Nast Paid $8 Million To E-mail Scammer

With a Parade of fancy fraud cases centered on Wall Street so much in Vogue, here is Chatter about a swindle lacking Glamour but still possessing a certain amount of Allure.  A man not a New Yorker nicked Condé Nast, the magazine publishing empire full of Self-esteem, for $8 million simply by sending one email.


The Details are set out for all to see in a civil lawsuit filed extremely quietly last week in Manhattan federal court not by Condé Nast or its parent, Advance Publications, but by the local U.S. Attorney’s Office acting on their behalf. The named defendants are two sums of money–$7,870,530.02 and $47,137.91, to be exact–that until federal investigators intervened had been sitting in accounts at an obscure bank branch in Texas. Technically, the feds, alleging wire fraud, filed a forfeiture action, presumably as a step toward returning the stash to Condé Nast.


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Paris Hilton Becomes Interviewer For Interview Magazine

Paris Hilton sat down with Lil Waynein the April 2011 cover story for Interview Magazine where they discuss their favorite clubs, Wayne recalling his first rhyme, the possibility of collaborating together, and the one thing they do have in common—they both did time in jail. 


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Oprah Publishes Diary Excerpts In O Magazine

Oprah Winfrey is sharing her personal insights on some of her most important life events in the April edition of her magazine.


The 57-year-old will share five pages from her own hand-written diaries covering events such as her first date through to her experiences on the set of the film The Color Purple, according to reports from USA Today.

The extracts appear in the April edition of O, The Oprah Magazine and contains an extract from a 16-year-old Winfrey written in 1970.

The Mississippi-born TV star, then in her teens, wrote about her first date and explained the turmoil she felt deciding whether or not she should attend. 

‘Anthony asked me yesterday to go with him today. I answered yes. My only regret is my parents. Maybe I shouldn't have said yes but I wanted to, and my want overpowered theirs...I hated to go against my parents but Anthony is so perfect (almost). I couldn't say no.’

As well as providing extracts from her own personal journals Winfrey also provides some context to the extracts.

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Newsweek Editor Wants To Return To Journalism

The Daily Beast/Newsweek‘s editor-in-chief  Tina Brown appeared in a very quick segment of “The View” this morning.  


Brown first spoke about changes to Newsweek with the release of her inaugural issue. She has “re-charged it, re-designed it,” and made the news magazine much more “image-driven.”


Whoopi Goldberg wanted to know what was wrong with Newsweek before Brown swooped in to save it. Brown said it “needed more reporting” and had very much become an opinion magazine.” Most important was “to get…journalism back to where it should be.” And “visually, it had lost, in a sense, its connection to pictures.”


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Fortune Magazine Regards Apple as its ‘Most Admired’ Company

For the fourth year in a row, Fortune Magazine has named Apple as the world’s “Most Admired” company.  To determine the winners, Fortune Magazine polled businesspeople and asked them to vote for the company they admired most across any industry.

Apple edged out tech giant Google and Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway to once again land the top spot on this year’s list. The Cupertino based company has been racking up several awards over the past few years.  Just last year, Steve Jobs was named the ‘Smartest CEO’ by Fortune and the Financial Times named him their ‘Person of the Year’ for 2010.

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Newsweek Magazine To Sport New Look

Media buyers who have gotten a look at Tina Brown's new prototype for Newsweek say it will be a sweeping overhaul.

George Clooney was on the cover of the prototype that one media buyer saw. Even though it was taking a look at Clooney's political leanings, it made the ad executive think that Brown was pitching the celebrity coverage that she embraced when she was running Vanity Fair in the '90s at Condé Nast.

The media exec was nevertheless impressed. "The bar was set pretty low by Jon Meacham and Tom Ascheim," said the media executive. "I think this is a big step in the right direction."

The magazine is also going to move to heavier stock on the cover and inside, "not the tissue paper that they are putting it out on now," said the media person.

"I think the Newsweek name has authority and credibility with readers still," said the media buyer.

Also in the cards, some sources say, Newsweek is mulling a switch in delivery time and will emulate Time and switch to Friday delivery. Time switched three years to Fridays while Newsweek continued with its Monday morning arrival time.

A spokesman insisted that Newsweek Magazine will not change delivery date to newsstands.

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Choose The Next Cover of Rolling Stone!

The choice is yours!

Rolling Stone is allowing readers to vote on which one of 16 unsigned bands should grace an upcoming cover of the legendary music magazine.

In Rolling Stone's first-ever "Do You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?" contest, the magazine is soliciting readers' votes -- online at RollingStone.com -- to whittle a group of 16 bands down to one, who will appear on the magazine's August 18 cover.

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